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No, the back of the picture is not required for the digital photo you include with your e-APR.

Like @tomie0987, I also used FedEx, costing about $45 USD to send to Ottawa via "International Priority" = delivery in 1-2 business days. They were a little confused about how to do the return label but finally ended up creating an account for me with FedEx, then had me manually fill out the...

That's awesome! Congratulations mate! :):)

Any other applicants in Seattle? Want to meet in person to share information and advice, talk about our experiences, or maybe even just practice speaking English? Let’s connect here! :) No matter where you are in the application process, it can be a challenging experience to apply for Canadian...

I read on a different thread that sometimes IRCC sends the PPR email to a different email address from the one you used for your EE account... for example, if you applied for a student visa or work permit before and used a different email address at that time, for some reason they still have...

I live in Seattle and got my photos taken at Walgreen's. The one at 3rd & Pike in downtown has a very good photo person on staff who does a lot of the Canadian photos, but any staff person there should be able to get the right dimensions because they have a guide that tells them what the...

That's a very different letter from the one I got! Makes me think that maybe they have different letters for different situations... especially since the letter I got also includes countries that are not visa-exempt. Was there anything else about your application/situation that was unusual?

Yes that happened to me too... mine never went into NA status, so I was never sure if the second change was really IP2. There seems to be quite a lot of variability on these BG status changes, in some cases related to country of residence. For example, it appears that a lot of US residents go to...

Can you please clarify what is the wording they are using to ask you to submit your passport? My PPR email doesn't actually specify whether to submit the passport or not, it states that you as the applicant need to determine whether it is necessary to send the passport based on whether you live...

I have a related question: After receiving COPR but before receiving PR card, can I travel to Canada without "landing"? Or am I REQUIRED to land the first time I travel to Canada after receiving COPR? The reason I ask has to do with the residency requirement... if the 5-year period for the RO...

Received the golden email tonight! Thank you to all my fellow FSW-O April/May applicants for all your advice, support, and encouragement!!! This forum has been such a great resource. I can't believe the dream has finally come true... it took more than two and a half years but now I am going to...

Received PPR tonight!!!! Thank you all my fellow FSW-O US applicants for all your information, advice, and support!! :):):):)

I posted some average waits times earlier in this thread: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/fsw-o-usa-why-so-long.501872/page-5#post-6175471

Thanks for the info! I hope the ghost update is indeed a true IP2 for me... but I was thinking it might have been from my CSE, I sent a document on July 13-- I hope that doesn't delay my application.

Congratulations! I got a "ghost update" on July 20 as well, and my dates for Meds passed and IP1/2 are exactly the same as yours... no PPR yet though.

Woo-hoo!!! :) That's awesome how so many FSW-O US residents are now getting PPR. I'm just a few days behind you so I hope there are no final glitches for me!

C Congratulations!!! :)

That's good news! When did you submit your CSE?

Hmm, I see. Well I did find a case of somebody who got rejected for the same language test issue I'm concerned about, and it happened one month after AOR. So that makes me think it was part of the R10 review... which would be good news for me (assuming I have actually passed that stage). Keeping...

I thought language test results were checked at R10 stage, not eligibility stage?